February 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Page-breakable framed text
by Mike Aizatsky 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi! Is there a way to produce a page-breakable framed text? I've already spent several hours on this and still can't find the solution. Or, may be there's a better way to achieve the effect, shown in the sample? Sample: % interface=en output=pdftex \defineframedtext[procedure][frame=off, leftframe=on, rulethickness=.4mm] \def\StartProcedure{\startnarrower[2*left] \startprocedure \startitemize[n]} \def\StopProcedure{\stopitemize \stopprocedure \stopnarrower} \def\Step{\item} \starttext \dorecurse{20}{Some Text. Some Text. Some Text. } \StartProcedure \dorecurse{10}{ \Step\dorecurse{20}{Some Text.} } \StopProcedure \dorecurse{20}{Some Text. Some Text. Some Text. } \stoptext ===== MA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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Can itemize calculate optimal label widths?
by Stefan Wachter 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Hi all! Is there a possiblity to have itemize calculate the optimal label width itself? I have an itemize that has rather different labels, e.g.: \startitemize \sym{1.} An item \sym{2.} Another item \sym{103 a.} An item with a very broad label \stopitemize In this example the label "103 a." flows into the item text. It would be great if itemize would automatically use a label width that fits the broadest label. Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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horoffset
by Thomas Lohmann 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Hello all, just a short question. I have used \setuplayout[horoffset=-0.4cm] to correct the printing area of my laserprinter. But this is not possible for doublesided documents, made with \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided], because this changes the direction of the offset from page to page. Is there an other command? Or can I use \setuppapersize for that purpose? Thanks for your help, Greetings Thomas Lohmann

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(no subject)
by Mike Aizatsky 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi! Is there a way to produce a page-breakable framed text? I've already spent several hours on this and still can't find the solution. Or, may be there's a better way to achieve the effect, shown in the sample? Sample: % interface=en output=pdftex \defineframedtext[procedure][frame=off, leftframe=on, rulethickness=.4mm] \def\StartProcedure{\startnarrower[2*left] \startprocedure \startitemize[n]} \def\StopProcedure{\stopitemize \stopprocedure \stopnarrower} \def\Step{\item} \starttext \dorecurse{20}{Some Text. Some Text. Some Text. } \StartProcedure \dorecurse{10}{ \Step\dorecurse{20}{Some Text.} } \StopProcedure \dorecurse{20}{Some Text. Some Text. Some Text. } \stoptext ===== MA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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90° rotation + landscape
by Peter Rolf 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hello list, I want to setup an evelope and the whole output should be rotated by 90° (this is the way my printer gets them). ___ | || ________ | | | -- | | | |_____--_| ||__| normal layout 90° rotated output (paper and content) The resulting pdf looks like this (square paper format): ______ | | | | | | | ||_____| Here is a minimal example: % interface=en output=pdftex \definepapersize[C65] % standard C65 evelope [width=229mm, height=114mm, ] \setuppapersize[C65][C65, landscape, 90] \starttext \tfc 90° rotation for printer. \stoptext Have I missed something or is this a bug in \dodosetuppapersize? Any help welcome, Peter

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hyperlinks in PDF
by Alan Bowen 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Using the \setupinteraction and \useURL commands, I can now generate active blue email links my PDFs—which is very cool. The downside is that my footnote numbers (both in the text and below) are now blue too. I can go two ways with this. One way would be to set the footnote links to toggle between the footnote call in the text and the footnote itself. The other would be to prevent ConTeXt from treating the footnote numbers as links. I have no idea about how to do either and would be grateful for suggestions for either strategy, though my preference would be for the first (assuming that it is possible). As it is now, clicking on the footnote call in the text changes the magnification so that the whole page fits on the screen, which is not all that desirable under the present circumstances. Alan

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web site
by Hans Hagen 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Hi, Tomorrow evening the website will be down for some 10 hours due to moving the server to another location. Sorry. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Gray bars on Windows 98se
by John Culleton 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

I am creating an e-book following closely the example program d-en-all.pdf. The color scheme is taken from the orignal without change. On my Slackware Linux box the reulting PDF file shows correctly, black type on a light gray background. But when I look at it on a Windows 98 SE machine (I have two such) using Acrobat Reader 5.05 each line of text has darker background than the page as a whole, as if each line on the page had been marked with a highlighter. On Linux (also Acrobat Reader 5.05 or thereabouts) no such banding occurs. It displays correctly using Xpdf as well. I will post the (incomplete) e-book on http://wexfordpress.com/tex/book.pdf if anyone wants to try viewing it on their own OS and version of Acrobat Reader. The pertinent source is contained in my macros.tex file as follows: ------------------------------- \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppapersize [S6][S6] \setuplayout [header=0cm, topspace=.5cm, backspace=2cm, margindistance=.5cm, margin=1cm, rightmargin=0cm, rightedge=2cm, edgedistance=.5cm, width=fit, footer=1cm, height=middle] \usetypescriptfile[type-charter] \usetypescript[Charter] \setupbodyfont[MyCharter,14pt] \setupwhitespace[line] \setuphead [chapter] [alternative=inmargin, number=no, ownnumber=yes, after={\blank[3*medium]}] \setupfootertexts [text] [chapter][chapternumber] \setupcolors [state=start] \setuptyping [option=tex] \setupinteraction [% %openaction={firstpage,FitHeight} state=start, style=, color=blue, contrastcolor=, menu=on, title=Free Authoring Software: From Premise to PDF, author=John Culleton] \setupinteractionscreen[option=max] \definecolor [DarkGray] [s=.6] \definecolor [MediumGray] [s=.8] \definecolor [LightGray] [s=.9] \setupinteractionmenu [right] [background=color, backgroundcolor=LightGray, frame=off, state=start] \startinteractionmenu[right] \but [content] contents \\ \but [NextPage] next \\ \but [PreviousPage] previous \\ % \but [sample] sample \\ \but [PreviousJump] back \\ \but [ExitViewer] exit \\ \vfill \stopinteractionmenu \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=color, backgroundcolor=MediumGray] \setupbackgrounds [text][text] [background=color, backgroundcolor=LightGray, backgroundoffset=1.25mm] \setuplist [chapter] [alternative=f, after=, before=] \setuptyping [before=, after=] \definefont [VeryLarge] [SansBold at 72pt] \definefont [RatherLarge] [RegularBold at 30pt] \definefont [Large] [RegularBold at 24pt] \def\tm{\char153\ } ----------------------------- Any suggestions welcomed :-| -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Vertical alignment of marginal material
by Jonathan Nicholl 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

> Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:14:38 +0100 > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] alignment of marginal material > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > At 21:40 22/02/2004, Jonathan Nicholl wrote: >> I am trying to write a macro which places a picture in the margin. I >> would >> like the centre of the picture to be aligned vertically with the >> centre of >> the paragraph in which I call the macro. The following works in >> simple cases: >> >> \def\hazard#1{% >> \setbox0=\vbox{#1}% >> \inleft [low] {% >> \framed% >> [height=\ht0,% >> top=\vss,% >> bottom=\vss,% >> frame=off]% >> {\externalfigure [sharp turn sign]}% >> }% >> #1}% >> >> If I type something like >> >> \hazard{…paragraph text…} >> >> this produces what I want. But it breaks down with mathematics. >> >> \hazard{% >> \startformula >> …mathematics… >> \stopformula >> } >> >> produces the picture aligned with the bottom of the mathematics. >> >> A solution to this problem escapes me. Can anyone suggest an improved >> macro? > > Here is my 10 minute solution ... if i'm in the mood i can make an > option of it Maybe other people would like some support for this kind of thing. Certainly I would find it useful if, when I wrote `\inmargin…' somewhere inside a paragraph, I could specify an option to determine the vertical alignment of the marginal material. Suppose `top' aligned the top of the marginal material with the top of the paragraph, `mid' the middle of the marginal material with the midpoint of the paragraph, and `bot' the bottom of the marginal material with the bottom of the paragraph. That would be good. > \newcounter\CurrentFigPar > > \def\StartFigPar#1% > {\doglobal\increment\CurrentFigPar > \placefigure > [leftmargin,line,none]{} > {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% > > \ifnum\MPp{figpar:b:\CurrentFigPar}=\MPp{figpar:e: > \CurrentFigPar}\relax > \scratchdimen\MPy{figpar:b:\CurrentFigPar}% > \advance\scratchdimen-\MPy{figpar:e:\CurrentFigPar}% > \advance\scratchdimen-\ht\scratchbox > \advance\scratchdimen\lineheight > \else > \scratchdimen\zeropoint > \fi > \vbox{\vskip.5\scratchdimen\box\scratchbox}}% > \indent\hpos{figpar:b:\CurrentFigPar}{\strut}\ignorespaces} > > \def\StopFigPar > > {\removeunwantedspaces\hpos{figpar:e:\CurrentFigPar}{\strut}\endgraf} > > \starttext > > \input tufte > > \StartFigPar{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=1cm]} \input tufte > \StopFigPar > > \input tufte > > \stoptext=20 Thank you very much indeed, Hans. This puts cow.pdf in the right place in the margin. One problem remains. Surrounding a paragraph by \StartFigPar…\StopFigPar often messes up the inter-paragraph vertical spacing. In particular, surrounding \startformula…\stopformula by \StartFigPar…\StopFigPar introduces big spaces above and below the mathematics. Is there a simple way to stop this? It would be good if introducing a few \StartFigPar…\StopFigPar pairs to a document had no effect at all on the main body of the document, and just put figures in the margin. ----------------------- Jonathan Nicholl Department of Philosophy King's College London

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manual on style design
by Hans Hagen 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hi, I'm working on a new manual. Some content and a rough outline can be found at: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/style.pdf Just to get an idea (let me know if you miss topics that fit in that approach) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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